A Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

The collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the emergence of its unprecedentedly comprehensive global secret military mapping project and the commercial availability of a vast number of detailed topographic maps and city plans at several scales. This thesis provides an in-depth examination of the series of over 2,000 large-scale city plans produced in secret by the Military Topographic Directorate ( ) of the General Staff between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of the USSR in 1991. After positioning the series in its historical context, the nature and content of the plans are examined in detail. A poststructuralist perspective introduces possibilities to utilise and apply the maps in new contexts, which this thesis facilitates by providing a systematic, empirical analysis of the Soviet map symbology at 1:10,000 and 1:25,000, using new translations of production manuals and a sample of the city plans. A comparative analysis with the current OpenStreetMap symbology indicates scope for Soviet mapping to be used as a valuable supplementary topographic resource in a variety of existing and future global mapping initiatives, including humanitarian crisis mapping. This leads to a conclusion that the relevance and value of Soviet military maps endure in modern applications, both as a source of data and as a means of overcoming contemporary cartographic challenges relating to symbology, design and the handling of large datasets.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Springer Theses
Release date:	October 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Martin Davis
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-084019-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > General Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Geophysics
LSN:	3-03-084019-0
Barcode:	9783030840198

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